Installing replacement SSD on laptop

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running the latest Windows 10 Home. Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.1198)
The laptop is a Toshiba satellite S855 Intel cpu i7-3610QM, 8GB installed ram

Its old hdd is extremely slow so I want to replace it with a 1 TB ssd. The SSD is a Samsung 1Tb V-NAND SSD, 860 EVO sata 6Gb/s, Model: MZ - 76E1TO. The new drive arrived with no instructions or help.

I also own a Kingwin USI-2535 "SATA and IDE Adapter" which I've used in the past, so I know it works. See attached image (Adapter.jpg)

I made the connections as shown in the attached image (setup.jpg)
The top cable from the ssd goes to the adapter with a usb cable for the laptop.
The bottom cable from the ssd goes to the electric power supply.

I planned to use imaging software (Ease todo backup or Macrium) to "clone" the present slow hdd to the new ssd and then insert the ssd into the laptop.

But, when the ssd is attached to the adapter and the laptop, the new drive does not appear as an available drive in "My PC" as usually happens when I attach an external hdd to the laptop. The attached hd does appear in the Windows notification bar at the bottom of the windows desktop and I can eject it from that icon..

The only place I can find the ssd is in "devices and printers" (attached image: Devices SSD).

I therefore do not know how to proceed to clone the present hdd to the new ssd.

Can someone help? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

See this article on initializing an SSD for first use -

How to Initialize Your SSD for Windows(R)

USB 2.0 bridge. So, it you initialize it and get it to work, It will take a very long time to clone the disk. You should use a USB 3.0 SATA to USB adapter, and connect it to a USB 3.0 port in the computer.

Also, it has a "dual output power supply with standard 4 pin power output and new SATA power output". Check that you are using the SATA connector.

Curious said:

When the ssd is attached to the adapter and the laptop, the new drive does not appear as an available drive in "My PC" as usually happens when I attach an external hdd to the laptop. The attached hd does appear in the Windows notification bar at the bottom of the windows desktop and I can eject it from that icon..
Can someone help? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.

You're not doing anything wrong.
The 860 EVO drive is not initialized and has no partition and hasn't been formated (all space is unallocated) so it doesn't show on explorer but should show in Disk Manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc)

Don't be worried, It is the way it should be as the drive must be unallocated to be cloned. My recommendation is to use Macrium, not Samsung.

OldNavyGuy said:

See this article on initializing an SSD for first use -

How to Initialize Your SSD for Windows(R)

Thanks, but that page says I to not need to initialize it if I'm cloning. It must be wrong.

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Megahertz said:

You're not doing anything wrong.
The 860 EVO drive is not initialized and has no partition and hasn't been formated (all space is unallocated) so it doesn't show on explorer but should show in Disk Manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc)

Don't be worried, It is the way it should be as the drive must be unallocated to be cloned. My recommendation is to use Macrium, not Samsung.

Thank you. But how do I clone to it if the cloning software does not see it as a target?

Curious said:

Thank you. But how do I clone to it if the cloning software does not see it as a target?

Does it show in Disk Manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc)?

Megahertz said:

You're not doing anything wrong.
The 860 EVO drive is not initialized and has no partition and hasn't been formated (all space is unallocated) so it doesn't show on explorer but should show in Disk Manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc)

Don't be worried, It is the way it should be as the drive must be unallocated to be cloned. My recommendation is to use Macrium, not Samsung.

Thank you. So I understand and don't mess up, if I see the ssd in disk manager should I format it? As what?

The old HDD has several partitions. I want them all the same in the new ssd. Do I need to first partition the new ssd like the old HDD or just as one single default partition and the cloning will create the partitions?
I have Macrium and will use it.
Thank you again.

Megahertz said:

Does it show in Disk Manager (C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.msc)?

Yes it does!!
Does initializing it mean formatting it?